New York Clothier Moe Ginsburg

August 27, 1992|By New York Times News Service.

NEW YORK — Moe Ginsburg, whose store offering quality men`s clothing at inexpensive prices was a fixture of New York`s retailing industry, died Saturday in New York. He was 76 and lived in Lawrence, N.Y.

Mr. Ginsburg was a third-generation clothier. His grandfather sold clothes and other items from a wagon in Russia. His father, Jacob, owned a clothing store in Brooklyn, where Moe began working at age 11.

Mr. Ginsburg had told of being late for his bar mitzvah because he was waiting on a customer at the store, said his son, Paul.

Mr. Ginsburg graduated from high school, but didn`t go to college, preferring, as he often said, to get his education on the retail floor.

He operated his own store in East New York and then spent 15 years manufacturing men`s clothing before he opened Moe Ginsburg, Men`s Better Clothing, as a ``no-frills, pipe rack`` operation in the mid-1960s, offering fashionable men`s wear at lower prices than department stores.

He moved the store to its present location on Fifth Avenue at 21st Street in the early 1970s.

Mr. Ginsburg was active in numerous charities, but preferred to make his contributions anonymously.

Mr. Ginsburg`s wife, Sydel, died in 1979. In addition to his son, Paul, he is survived by two daughters, Phyllis Horowitz and Alice Feltheimer; and two sisters.